*smirk*

[bronwynrh]

I and my coworkers were interviewed via e-mail and photographed for a special feature in the Indiana Daily Student (IDS).

The article ran yesterday.

Read and laugh.

So many things to guffaw and snort at here, I won't even start to list them. Enjoy!

Comments

[ashfault76.livejournal.com]

hahahaha!!!

yes, there are quite a few guffaws and snorts in that article.

"Like Watson, Clay Fuqua is hard to find."

I also enjoyed the quote that (through horrible misuse of bad grammar) seems to refer to you as male (using the pronoun "his"), when in fact the author was (I hope) trying to refer to Clay.

[bramey.livejournal.com]

There are three quotations attributed to me. The first two are actually mine, the third was Clay's.

Now read it again with that knowledge and you'll see how extra-fubar'd it is.

And um, they "grind them up and pick out the bacteria"? Yeah.

They grind up teeny-tiny ticks and then take teeny-tiny tweezers and pull out bacteria one by one, look at them and say, "Gee, this looks like burgdorferi, what do you think?"

*holds squirming bacterium on end of tweezers in coworker's face*

*giggle*

Clay as Watson (asshole) or brave and valiant ship's captain? Har.

[microbie.livejournal.com]

I'm embarrassed to admit that I started out sort of like Mr. Hard-to-Find (or is it Captain?)- interested in marine microbiology and then seguing over to microbial interactions. My advisor helped on a side project identifying different clones of Borrelia in ticks. Man, I haven't thought about these kinds of things in a long time.

Sounds like you work on some cool questions, though (not that I doubted that). In some ways I envy you.

[bramey.livejournal.com]

See, that's the other funny thing. None of the grad students work on the tick project - nobody interviewed is on that project. We've got an RA and an undergrad researcher on the project now, plus a rotation student (eventually another RA and postdoc).

The rest of us work on quorum sensing in Rhizobium and Agrobacterium or Agrobacterium biofilms (that's my project).

They really missed the boat when it comes to describing our research, but I'm not too surprised when the writer didn't even bother to come talk to us in person :-)

So do you miss the benchwork?

[microbie.livejournal.com]

Quorum sensing is way more cool. I was wondering how the interest in "bacteria communication and interaction" meshed with the tick project.

I do miss benchwork. It's probably the only aspect of graduate school that I miss. I loved fooling around with equipment and media, kind of like the kid who always played in the mud.